HELP FOR SETTLERS.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 10. In reply to a letter from the Returned Soldiers’ Association regarding the difficulties under which soldier settlers are labouring, the Minister tor Lands has written to the secretary of the Association as follows; ‘the trouble would appear to concern principally the soldier settlers who are sheep farmers and graziers of stock, and the difficulties under which they labour are duo primarily to the poor prices now obtainable tor their wool ond fat stock. 1 have much pleasure in informing you that this matter has received the serious consideration of the Government, and it has been decided that the only solution of the difficulty is in the direction of providing further financial assistance by an adjustment of mortgages, with a consequent increase in' accommodation, such adjustment to relate only to those soldier settlers who are hard workers and who have done sterling work in the development of their properties, and whgm I , consider should be offered every induceinput to remain on the lands,”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 397, 11 August 1921, Page 7
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171HELP FOR SETTLERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 397, 11 August 1921, Page 7
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